Mental Wellness located in North Houston, TX
Phone (appointments): 346-270-5897

Mental Health

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Health services offered At Houston Houston Medical-Mental Health Clinic, TX

Without mental wellness, relating with others and the environment can be challenging. Dr. Lucas Egebe and his team at houston medical-mental Health Clinic deliver evidence-based expert mental, medical, and psychotherapy services at their North Houston Clinic to patients who are going through emotional and behavioral problems including anxiety, depression, PTSD, substance use disorder, Bipolar disorder, relationship issues, schizophrenia, anger issues, and more.

The team has considerable expertise in helping people recover from their emotional and behavioral problems. In doing so, they exercise patience, listen with compassion, assess the situation, come up with a diagnosis, and plan care while considering the patient's priorities and culture. Call today for your appointment. You can schedule an in-person or telehealth appointment online where care is delivered in the comfort of your home.

Mental Health Q & A

What is mental health?

Mental health is all about your mind’s wellness. It concerns your emotional and psychological well-being and how your thought processes work.

Mental health problems, although they are genetically based, can be triggered by numerous reasons: Experiencing abuse or other traumatic events and many of life’s major challenges, like losing a loved one, not being raised by one's own mother in early childhood, seeing someone being killed unexpectedly, relationship breakups, and job loss are just of few of the many examples the mental health triggers that are out there. 

You might be more likely to develop mental health problems if your family has a history of these conditions. It’s also possible for mental health disorders to develop from excessive stress. In all cases, the root of the problem is an imbalance of the chemicals in your brain that regulate mood.

What links physical and mental health?

Mental health and physical health go hand in hand, each affecting the other.

People with physical illnesses and problems like chronic pain are more likely to experience mental health problems. You can also develop symptoms of mental health disorders if you have a hormone imbalance.

Menopause, when women have lower levels of the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone, often causes depression. Other hormonal disorders, like hypothyroidism, frequently cause depression too.

What are some common mental health conditions?

The mental health experts at Houston Medical-Mental Health Clinic treat a wide range of disorders, including:

  • Depression
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Substance abuse and addiction

 What causes mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia? 

In the layman's way of explaining this; the way we perceive ourselves and others, the way we feel motivated in doing the things that we should be doing, the way our sleep is regulated, the way we store and remember information, the way we relate with others, the way we resist craving for controlled substances and alcohol products, the way we focus on tasks all depend on the proper balance of some chemicals in our brain called neurotransmitters.

When the level of this chemical balance is tipped off for some unexplained reasons laid down by genetic principles; some of these chemicals go high resulting in anxiety and positive schizophrenia symptoms and others go low resulting in depression and negative schizophrenia symptoms. Most of the time, we inherit these conditions from our parents. All that is important is to be able to identify your symptoms and seek treatment right away. If not identified and treated early enough, your symptoms will continue to get worse. 

What can I do if I have symptoms of a mental health problem?

if you’re experiencing any mental distress, the first step is to contact Houston Medical-Mental Health Clinic. One of the benefits of this combined service is that your provider can screen for issues like hormone imbalances that affect your mental health.


They have the knowledge and experience to diagnose and treat physical and mental health disorders. They also know you’re not crazy — it’s the brain chemicals that have gone wrong. Your provider has treatments to correct the chemical problems and bring you back to balance..
What mental health services might I need?

After performing a comprehensive assessment and tests (if necessary), your provider at Houston Medical-Mental Health Clinic creates a treatment plan personalized to your needs. Treatments might include:
  • Medication management
  • Counseling
  • Opioid use disorder management (Suboxone therapy)
  • Referral to an Opioid use disorder treatment center (Naloxone therapy)

Medication management is the treatment arm that plays a vital role in correcting chemical imbalance in your brain. However, for most people, the better results come from combining medication and talk therapy than either of the two alone. 

Whether your condition is mild, moderate, or severe, you can enjoy better mental health with support from Houston Medical-Mental Health Clinic. Call the office today or book an appointment online.